Abū Kālījār al-Marzubān ibn Sulṭān ad-Dawlah

Abū Kālījār al-Marzubān ibn Sulṭān ad-Dawlah, also called Muḥyīʾad-dīn (born May/June 1009, Basra, Iraq—died October 1048, Khannāb, near Kermān, Iran) ruler of the Būyid dynasty from 1024, who for a brief spell reunited the Būyid territories in Iraq and Iran.

When his father, Sulṭān ad-Dawlah, died in December 1023/January 1024, Abū Kālījār’s succession to the sultan’s Iranian possessions of Fārs and Khuzistan was challenged by his uncle Abū al-Fawāris, the ruler of Kerman, to the west. By 1028 Abū Kālījār was victorious and added Kerman to his domains. In the meantime (1027) he had attacked the Iraqi lands of another uncle, Jalāl ad-Dawlah, and had ... (100 of 211 words)